You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by x77-69z28

He crossed the center line, so he would be disqualified!
Buddy

You are correct, but props to the kid for not lifting!

K

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by 67since67

What could possibly go wrong here???

When I was about that age I took out the driver's side windshield of my Grandfather's '48 Chevy coupe with a baseball at a distance similar to where that green Caddy is parked.

Then, had to go in and stand tall with a confession.

This was me, sunup til sundown (or later) all summer.

I wish I had a dollar for every time I broke the street light out in front of our house.

K

[Lee Stewart]

[mssl72]

Ok, that's one way to learn...

[Mr70]

Mr70:I read somewhere by one of the Z-16 authority's,that although similar,the Z-16 did NOT use the 1965 Chevelle Convertibles' exact boxed frame.It did resemble it though.Also the Brakes were NOT Impala 11" brakes,but similar as well.
Both were unique to the Z-16 Chevelle.

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

Can you provide some links for that info?

Why would Chevrolet use one-off items like a frame and brakes as opposed to using existing items like the Chevelle convertible boxed frame and the Impala 11" brakes? Production was always going to be 200 cars. All the Chevy notes:

OK,Jeff was kind enough to clear this up.Thank you Jeff.

By jeffschevelle:
The Z-16 frame has a different part number due to a different front cross member (there could be other differences but that is the only one I am sure about) They started using the Z-16 cross member in all the frames later in the year,but did not change the part numbers as a result.
So the Z-16 frame part number remains a Z-16 only item.

The rear brakes are entirely interchangeable with a 65 Impala.The rear axle housing has Impala size tubes and bearing housings and flanges on the end. The axles are Z-16 only (Chevelle length with Impala diameter).

On the front brakes everything inside the drum is interchangeable, but the spindle, backing plate and drum are Z-16 only. You can use an Impala drum with Impala wheels, but a Z-16 wheel will not fit on an Impala front drum. The front brake hoses are 1st gen Nova.

[Lee Stewart]

The new cross member would of course make sense as this was the first time a big block was installed in a Chevelle.

The rear is a shortened Impala.

spindle, backing plate and drum are Z-16 only. I wonder why this was. Impala standard wheels were 14 x 5 with wagons getting 14 x 6. You could order the 6" wheels under RPO P12 with mandated 8.25x14 tires.

[big gear head]

Because the Impala had a 5 on 5 bolt pattern?

The Chevelle has a different rear suspension from the Impala, so it would have been a Chevelle rear end with Impala tubes, or the frame would have been modified for the Impala suspension. I would bet that it just had Impala tubes.

[Lee Stewart]

When the bones of the early armored dinosaur Scelidosaurus were unearthed in 1858 in west Dorset, England, they comprised the first complete dinosaur skeleton ever identified. Scelidosaurus, which lived about 193 million years ago, was an early member of the evolutionary lineage that led to the dinosaur group called ankylosaurs. Ankylosaurs were so heavily armored - some even wielding a bony club at the end of their tails - that they are dubbed the tank dinosaurs.

[Lee Stewart]

Have you seen this artifact on your HDTV? It's called Color Banding. It's a result of HD's low 8 bit color depth - the same color depth used in standard definition TV.